Agence France-Presse (AFP) has taken the social network Twitter to court to negotiate remuneration for the use of its content on the platform, according to a statement published on Wednesday.
"Agence France-Presse regrets Twitter's manifest refusal, recently renamed X, to enter into discussions to implement the press' neighbouring right," the French international news agency says.
The agency filed an application for interim measures with the Paris judicial court on Wednesday, "so that Twitter can be enjoined from communicating to it, in accordance with the law, all the elements required to assess the remuneration due to it."
The copyright neighbouring right, extended to digital platforms in 2019 by a European directive, allows newspapers, magazines and news agencies to be remunerated when their content is re-used on the internet by the major digital platforms, often via extracts of articles associated with a photo.
After a long legal battle, several French media outlets, including AFP, have obtained remuneration for the use of their content from Google from 2021 and 2022, the amounts of which have remained confidential.
Some publishers have also reached a licensing agreement for the use of their content with Facebook.
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In July, three French press groups (Le Monde, Le Figaro and Les Echos-Le Parisien) brought an interlocutory injunction against Twitter for similar reasons.
The social network was acquired last October by billionaire Elon Musk, who wants to turn it into an all-purpose platform, modelled on WeChat in China.
"AFP will continue to use, with each of the operators concerned, the legal means necessary to achieve a fair balance in the sharing of news value," the agency continued in its statement.
